Shopping And F***ing

Description

Shopping and F***ing is an uncompromising portrait of contemporary society as a place in which social bonds have been dismantled and primary relationships have been replaced by weightless, consumerist desires. By turns, bleak, sensational, funny and heartbreaking, Ravenhill's 'state-of-the-nation' play is vitally up-to-date in its description of a fatal loss of connection.

Mark Ravenhill trained at Bristol University. His first full-length play, Shopping and F***ing, open ed at the Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs, in September 1996. It transferred to the West End in June 1 997 and opened in New York in January 1998. It has subsequently been produced all over the world. Hi s other plays include Faust, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids and Mother Clap's Molly House.

"'Shopping And F***ing is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings... a real coup de theatre' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard"